And this time next year she will be a teen!

Yesterday, my sister's boyfriend told me that he thought Lucy was like 16. His jaw literally dropped when I told him that she just turned 12 in March. Stood there bug eyed after I showed him this picture of Lucy trying on her dress for the Miami County Duchess pageant.
She is strong willed, independent, and not afraid to speak her mind. Sounds like someone I know.
At 12, the eye rolling has begun in earnest, but I think I am being spared a good portion of it since she uses up a lot of it on her Granny. She can hardly stand to be seen in public with my mother in law these days and refuses to kiss her when we leave. I explained to Polly that Lucy feels that a hug is sufficient. It cracks Polly up that Lucy is embarrassed. Thus, Lucy works off her teenage mortification on her instead of me :)

2010 flying by

This year is definitely going by fast! it has been chaotic and difficult, but (say it with me now!) "None of this is eternal!" Thinking I will start a new blog determined to only focus on the positive side. Ranting has it's place, but when the world seems so dark, one must hyper focus on the light. Still awake at 2:25am head full of ideas so I can't sleep. must write and make lists. I felt a song coming on, but stayed in bed too long to get it out on paper. I have made one definite decision. It is time to stop living in "deal with the latest crisis" mode. My goal is LIVING ON PURPOSE. My new motto? Plan, pray, perform. oh wait. that is how I get in trouble all the time. PRAY, plan, perform! I bet it works better that way :)